Hutton Buscel, Yorkshire, England
Birthplace of Jemima Thirkell and her mother, Mary Baines Brown Thirkell. Residence and place of burial of Jemima Thirkell's grandparents, William Cook Brown and Sarah Baines (Baynes) Brown.This small village is located near the picturesque North Sea coast of Yorkshire, near Scarborough. The area is misty, with small villages all around, the seaside town of Scarborough to the east, and moors covered with purple heather to the north. The village itself consists of mostly homes and farms.
On the road leading out of the village
St Matthew's Church, Hutton Buscel
Gravestone
of Jemima Thirkell's maternal grandparents, the Browns - my father found it
amongst the other graves in St. Matthew's churchyard, Hutton Buscel,
Yorkshire, England. The inscription on their gravestone reads:
IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM BROWN,
DIED DECR 9TH, 1853, AGE 79 YEARS.
ALSO, SARAH, WIFE OF THE ABOVE
DIED JANY 4TH, 1862, AGED 87 YEARS.
Information from William Frederick Darley and Jemima Brown Thirkell - Their Ancestors and Descendants:
Mary Baines Brown was a local girl from this eastern part of Yorkshire, in the north of England. John Thirkell was a gamekeeper who had come from Kent, in the southeast of England (near London). They married in Hutton Buscel, Yorkshire, and their first 2 daughters were born there (Sarah Ann and Jemima). Later the family moved to Northampton, and then to the U.S.A. Mary Baines Brown's parents, William and Sarah Brown, stayed behind in Hutton Buscel, later died there, and are buried in the churchyard of St. Matthew's Church.
Alternate spellings: Hutton Buschel, Hutton Bushel
Photos by K. Dixit and family (Sept. 2002)